El-Zakzaky whisked to ‘unknown destination’: IMN cries

The banned Islamic Movement of Nigeria has expressed disappointment that its leader Sheikh El-Zakzaky was whisked away by the DSS, to an ‘unknown destination’ after his arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Friday afternoon.

Its unhappiness stemmed from the media opportunity the security agencies allowed their man to miss, being interviewed by a multitude of media men waiting for hours at the airport.

The journalists waited in vain as the security men took him away through another door.

The IMN spokesman, Ibrahim Musa said the ‘security agency’ holding him hostage should declare to the public “where they are keeping him in the country”.

He vowed that the movement would continue the struggle to arrange another medical trip for him outside Nigeria and also his freedom from DSS detention.

Until he was allowed to leave for India on Monday, El-Zakzaky was being detained by the DSS.

” We wish to reiterate our call for the federal government to comply with an earlier Abuja high court that has freed him since 2016. We believe obedience to this court order will finally solve the crisis that has been lingering since the Zaria genocide of December 2015″, Musa said.

In the statement Friday, which he described as ‘setting the records straight’, the IMN spokesman highlighted some developments leading to the El-Zakzaky stand-off with doctors at India’s Medanta Hospital.